Sometimes I am overwhelmed by the good God brings to me. Thoughts like, "Of all people, I don't deserve such blessings" and "I shouldn't be the one allowed to lead His people" start to creep in. Though I think being humbled by God's goodness is a very healthy thing, shame is not!
For the Scripture says, “Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.” (Romans 10:11 ESV)
Though there is nothing righteous about me, when I trust Jesus as my treasure, all his righteousness becomes my own; all his blessings my sustenance; all his promises my hope. Yes, I deserve to feel shame. But Jesus doesn't...and we are His and, through God's adoption of us as sons and daughters, we are heirs to the promise!
"So let no one boast in men. For all things are yours, whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future—all are yours, and you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s." (1 Corinthians 3:21-23 ESV)
We are His and He is God's and everything belongs to God so everything belongs to us. There is a confidence that cannot be shaken for God's children. It doesn't rest in how much ministry I do or how good I perform today or how little I manage to mess up from one day to the next...it rests in Jesus. Alone. His work. His character. To cling to Him as my only hope for salvation is to know Him as my treasure for how can I not value supremely what I KNOW to be the only good thing I have?!
The gift of God is to bring about this knowledge in the hearts and minds of His children, no matter what it takes.
I will fight to find joy today in the truth that I am not shamed because I wear the pure and blameless white garments of Christ.
"There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus." (Romans 8:1 ESV)
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